The Drug Enforcement Administration is seeking Ebonics translators to interpret wire-tapped conversations. Critics fear the move by a federal agency could set a precedent. But linguist John McWhorter ...

What is the Oakland school board resolution on Ebonics really about? The board argues that a high degree of proficiency in standard English can best be built by recognizing and building on the ...

Sign up for The Media Today, CJR’s daily newsletter. Reading the San Bernadino County Sun on Sunday, you might have thought for a second that something big was ...

The U.S. government's recent call for Ebonics translators to serve a drug-enforcement region that includes South Florida renews a decades-old debate: What exactly is Ebonics, and should law ...

When the headlines appeared this week that the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) had issued a request to hire up to nine linguists proficient in Ebonics, it appeared it might be yet another cruel ...

OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Posted on the wall of Carrie Secret’s classroom, handwritten cards in careful cursive strokes list the primary language of her black fifth-graders as “Ebonics.” Over in a corner ...

In my high school Spanish class, one of my best friends was a Puerto Rican guy named Brendan. He was bilingual — or so I thought. I “earned” a D in the class. Brendan had an F. I never let him forget ...

One of the hardest things for a black linguist is getting across, once and for all, something that the public never quite seems to get: Black English is not bad English. Over the years, people have ...

For all the talk about what a subtle business the n-word is, the concept of Ebonics is just as tricky. And in the wake of the theatrically pat culmination of the Dr. Laura drama — her exiting stage ...

PEOPLE seemed pretty clear on the latest California controversy in which the Oakland school board accepted “Ebonics” as a black “language” that should be taught to English teachers. But when I saw an ...

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